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1 A comparative study of Takaful and conventional insurance: empirical evidence from the Malaysian market AUTHORS Hussein A. Abdou Khurshid Ali Roger J. Lister ARTICLE INFO JOURNAL FOUNDER Hussein A. Abdou, Khurshid Ali and Roger J. Lister (2014). A comparative study of Takaful and conventional insurance: empirical evidence from the Malaysian market. Insurance Markets and Companies, 5(1) "Insurance Markets and Companies" LLC Consulting Publishing Company Business Perspectives NUMBER OF REFERENCES 0 NUMBER OF FIGURES 0 NUMBER OF TABLES 0 The author(s) This publication is an open access article. businessperspectives.org
2 Hussein A. Abdou (UK), Khurshid Ali (UK), Roger J. Lister (UK) A comparative study of Takaful and conventional insurance: empirical evidence from the Malaysian market Abstract The purpose of this paper is to distinguish between the performance levels of the Malaysian Takaful and conventional life insurance industries with a view to better informing the decisions of stakeholders. Our analysis makes use of financial ratios and macroeconomic variables namely gross domestic product (GDP), consumer price index (CPI) and treasury bill rate (TBR). We use two stage analysis. In the first stage we use discriminant analysis and logistic regression models for the financial ratios as independent variables and a dichotomous dependent variable. In the second stage we use multiple regression to investigate the macroeconomic independent variables with net premiums/contributions and net investment income as dependent variables. The data is extracted from companies annual reports. Our results indicate that conventional insurers perform better than Takaful companies in terms of profitability and risk measurement but Takaful outperform conventional insurance in respect of premium to surplus ratio. However, Takaful companies have prudent underwriting practices in place to curb information asymmetry. Furthermore, our results indicate that, unlike in the case of conventional insurance, the macroeconomic variables have no impact on the growth of Takaful companies as measured by the net premiums/ contributions. However, net investment income shows statistical significance for both industries. This is indicative of the fact that both industries efficiently utilize their funds to generate the desired return on their investments. Our paper has scholarly implications in terms of the empirical analysis of conventional and Islamic financial institutions insurance in particular. It can also inform market decisions and public policy with respect to the economic contribution of the insurance industry in Malaysia. Keywords: Takaful, conventional insurance, classification techniques, Malaysian market. Introduction 15 The resilience of the Islamic financial sector to the global financial crisis combined with the relative growth of oil wealth in the Middle East has enabled the Islamic financial industry to grow at an unprecedented rate (Masood et al., 2011). According to the president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), the total assets of the Islamic financial industry are expected to exceed $1.5 trillion by 2012 (Arab news, 27 June 2011). As a result, several developed and developing countries across the globe are seeking to provide the industry with a sound regulatory infrastructure and efficient investment opportunities. Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, are striving to foster Islamic financial institutions in parallel to the existing conventional financial industry. Among them, Malaysia is a pioneer as a provider of a uniform regulatory infrastructure for the Islamic financial industry (Lim et al., 2010). As a result of government support and capital availability over a period of thirty years, Malaysia has witnessed an unparalleled growth in demand for Islamic financial products and services across the country. Malaysian Islamic banking assets amounted to RM350.8 billion as at the end of 2010, increasing by 15.7% compared to 2009; meanwhile, the Takaful sector assets increased by 17.8% from the 2009 figure to RM14.7 billion at the end of The total assets of the Takaful industry account for 8.7% of the total assets in the conventional Hussein A. Abdou, Khurshid Ali, Roger J. Lister, insurance and Takaful industry according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM, 2011a). The global Takaful contribution was expected to reach $12 billion by the end of 2011 and $25 billion by 2015 (Ernst and Young, 2011). The global growth in the industry is mainly concentrated in the Middle East and North Africa and Southeast Asia. Based on 2009 figures, Saudi Arabia is the leading country with a total contribution of $3.86 billion, followed by Malaysia with $1.15 billion and the United Arab Emirates with $640 million (Gulf News, 21 July 2011). The Malaysian takaful industry. According to the BNM (2011a) financial stability report, total income from family Takaful policies increased by 20% to RM4,030.2 million in 2010 from RM3,381.6 million in This contributed to the increase in net contributions to family Takaful, which rose to RM3,326.9 million in 2010 from RM2,719.8 million in The net investment income from family Takaful exhibited a similar growth level rising to RM451.6 million in 2010 from RM354.8 million in However, due to tough market conditions at the global level, general Takaful recorded a slight decline in its underwriting profit in 2010, to RM145.8 million from RM170.1 million in Although the overall operating profit for Takaful providers in Malaysia improved from RM247.5 million in 2009 to RM272.4 million in 2010, due to relatively high operating costs, the overall profit declined. However, investment income for general Takaful still enjoyed an increase from RM57.7 to RM67.9 million in According to BNM Deputy Governor (BNM, 2011b), the Takaful industry in Malaysia penetrated
3 relatively faster than expected between 2005 and 2010 achieving a growth rate of 28% in There is a huge potential market for the Takaful industry, with only 54% of the population having either life insurance or family Takaful while the rest remain uncovered. At present, there are nine Takaful operators with an asset base of RM14,691.1 million and a total net contributions income of RM4,406.0 million, which is 6% of total Malaysian GNI (BNM, 2011c). Table 1 provides a snapshot of the Malaysian Takaful industry. The successful track record of the Takaful industry notably the growth in local demand is attributable to the growth of various components of the Islamic financial system, especially the Islamic banking sector and the Islamic capital market (Salleh & Kamaruddin, 2011). Table 1. Key Takaful statistical indicators (Malaysia) Indicator Takaful operators No. of agents 15,194 43,843 60,197 88,895 74,089 No. of offices 4,006 10,856 15,975 32,997 31,391 Net cont. RM million 1, , , , , % of GNI Family (% GNI) General (% GNI) Takaful total assets 6, , , , , Family assets 5, , , , , General assets 1, , , , , % of overall Insurance industry Source: BNM Takaful statistics (2010). The Malaysian conventional insurance industry. According to BNM (2011d), the conventional insurance industry earned a total premium income of RM31,923.9 million in 2010, an increase from RM29,208.2 million in As of the end of 2010, the industry had a recorded asset base of RM166,193.6 million, which comprises 5.5% of the total assets of the Malaysian financial industry, as shown in Table 2. Table 2. Key insurance statistical indicators (Malaysia) Indicator No. of insurers L/G No. of agents n/a 117, , , ,399 No. of offices ins. n/a Net prem. RM million n/a 27, , , , % of GNI n/a Life (% GNI) n/a General (% GNI) n/a Insurance total assets n/a 122, , , , Life assets n/a 102, , , , General assets n/a 19, , , , % of overall Insurance industry n/a Source: BNM insurance statistics (2010) Former Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM) president Md Adnan Md Zain reported in 2010 that group insurance is seeing an upward trend. The group insurance business saw a growth of 14.1% to a record RM2.36 billion in total premiums in 2010 compared to RM2.07 billion in 2009 (The Malay Mail, 11 April 2011). Similarly, the life insurance industry in Malaysia enjoyed a positive growth of 11.9% in 2010, as measured by total new business premiums, which were RM8.42 billion in 2010 compared to RM7.53 billion in This growth can be attributed to investment-linked policies, which showed a 26.6% growth over the same period. The growth in investment-linked business came from annual premium business (LIAM, 2010). Currently, the Takaful industry in Malaysia faces strong competition from the established conventional insurance industry in several key areas. The lack of an adequate secondary market for Shariahcompliant investment uniform regulatory infrastructure and a lack of research are some of the key issues hindering effective product development in the industry (Redzuan et al., 2009). For Shariah compliant Takaful companies, many conventional profitable investment opportunities are not permitted under the divine laws of Islam (Samad, 2004). 23
4 However, the impact of these constraints could be overcome by accelerating research in order to provide alternative investment avenues for the Takaful industry that are Shariah compliant. Due to the increase in the number of takaful companies since 2005, considerable research is being carried out to enable the industry to structure and offer more innovative products and services than ever before. However, the industry still needs more research in order to develop the business potential of the Malaysian market (Mondaq News, 04 July 2011). In order to appraise the performance of nonfinancial and financial enterprises, financial ratios are widely used including by way of comparison of Islamic and conventional banks (e.g. Samad, 2004; Iqbal, 2001; Johnes et al., 2010). The conventional insurance industry has been researched extensively using financial ratios, as is evident, for example, in the work of Amel et al. (2003), Chen & Wong (2004) and Franklin et al. (2005). However, there remains the opportunity to pursue the comparison between conventional insurance with the Takaful industry in terms of financial ratios, for the case of Malaysia, which is presently the second largest Takaful market after Saudi Arabia. Research into the performance of the insurance industry is crucial not least in the face of the industry s many challenges, which include increased competition, consolidation, solvency risks and a changing regulatory environment (Saad and Idris, 2011). Researchers have been attracted by the growth of the Takaful industry in parallel with the conventional insurance industry in Malaysia (e.g. Hamid et al. 2009; Rahman et al., 2004; Rahman et al., 2008; Redzuan et al. 2009). Their work seeks to identify any relationship between macroeconomic variables and the demand for family Takaful in Malaysia. They also investigate how far the emergence of Takaful institutions has had a positive social impact in Malaysia, as measured by economic indicators. It can be concluded from their findings that since its inception in 1984 the Takaful industry has had a healthy impact on the socioeconomics of the country. This can be seen in the growth of employment, profits before tax, and charitable giving by way of tithes (Zakah). These researchers also find that Islamic life insurance is much more popular among the Malaysian Muslim population in general, as compared to conventional life insurance, because of its Shariah compliant attributes including the general perception that conventional insurance is un-islamic because of the elements of Riba (interest), Maysir (gambling), and Gharar (excessive risk) (Lim et al., 2010). A recent empirical investigation by Ismail et al. (2011) uses a sample of nineteen firms to examine whether there are any significant differences in efficiency between Takaful and the conventional insurance industry. Their findings indicate that significant differences exist. On the basis of constant return to scale (CRS) and variable return to scale (VRS) tests, they find that the Takaful industry is less efficient than conventional insurance. They obtain similar results when conducting pure technical efficiency (PTE) and scale efficiency (SE) tests. Their work shows that the Takaful industry still needs to grow in order to benefit from scale efficiency. It is clearly beneficial to investigate other indicators at the same time as addressing a more recent period. The literature shows, to the best of our knowledge, that no other researcher to date has investigated the differences between the Takaful and conventional life insurance industries in Malaysia based on financial ratios using discriminant and logistic regression. Furthermore, these two industry sectors have never been empirically investigated in order to measure the impact of macroeconomic variables on their performances. In summary, the contribution of the present paper consists in its pursuit and achievement of two objectives: firstly to distinguish Takaful from conventional life insurance companies in terms of key financial metrics; and secondly to investigate how far, if at all, macroeconomic variables, namely Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Treasury Bill Rate (TBR), appear to influence the growth of the Takaful and conventional insurance industries respectively in Malaysia. Our findings are intended in practical terms to identify how far and in which respects the performance of the Takaful industry differs from that of conventional insurers with respect to profitability and solvency. The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section 1 reviews the underlying concepts; Section 2 addresses data sources and methodology; Section 3 reports and analyzes our results; and the final section comprises conclusion and recommendations. 1. Conceptual and structural differences between Takaful and conventional insurance Takaful operators and mainstream conventional insurers differ in terms of their essential conceptual paradigms (see for example Kwon, 2007; Kwon, 2010; Lee et al., 2010; Hussain and Pasha, 2011; Maysami and Kwon, 2011; Abidin et al., 2012). Mainstream conventional insurance comprises an undertaking by an insurer in exchange for consideration to make a payment to either the insured or another if a specified event occurs. Takaful is Islamic alternative to conventional insurance and is based on the notion of social solidarity, cooperation and joint indemnification of losses of the members. 24
5 Within risk management it can serve to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss and can replace the risk of a large possible devastating loss with a small contingent loss. Aspects of mainstream insurance are generally held to be structurally contrary to Islamic Shariah principles notably the following. It is contrary to reliance on Allah s will by avoiding risk, because Muslims believe that what happens is predetermined by His will. They are allowed however to take steps to minimize the impact of events. What then is specifically objectionable in conventional mainstream insurance? It is a commutative contract which unduly limits uncertainty and ambiguity. It entails Riba (prohibited interest), Gharar (inordinate risk and insufficient transparency), Maysir (gambling), and investing in prohibited activities such as alcoholic beverage production. Conventional insurance is furthermore considered Haram (prohibited) because the insurers pay for a loss of human life which is priceless and they aim to generate a profit for their stakeholders not whom they are insuring. Takaful is a contract of mutual guarantee based on mutual cooperation and gratuitous offering in which risk is assumed voluntarily by participants in the Takaful pool/contract. Based on these differences it is of interest to examine whether there are differences in performance and financial strength between Takaful and standard insurance companies in Malaysia. The above religious imperatives have generated a wide range of Shariah compliant institutions including Takaful which is the focus of the present paper. The word insurance or banking when prefixed by Islamic means that all theories and practices are examined from the perspective of Islamic laws and values as enshrined in the Qur an (holy book) and Hadith (sayings of prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) (Farooq et al., 2010). The concepts of aldiyah and al-aqilah (blood money to rescue an accused in accidental killings) gave birth to the concepts of Takaful. In Arabic, Takaful means joint guarantee, which can be further defined as an agreement among a group of members or participants who are willing to mutually guarantee one another against potential future losses to their respective assets (Rahman et al., 2008). The core of the Takaful concept is the aim to promote mutual cooperation, solidarity and brotherhood in the community. Islam prohibits Riba, Gharar and Maysir in either commercial or social contracts. Islamic scholars such as Ibn Abdin ( ) first started to examine whether conventional insurance is in accordance with the tenets of Islam (Anwar, 1994). Ibn Abdin (cited by Farooq et al., 2010, p. 57) argues that I see that it is not permitted to any merchant to get indemnity for his damaged property against the payment of a certain sum of money known as insurance premium; because this is a commitment for what should not be committed to. Ibn Abdin denounced the contract of insurance because the elements of Gharar and Maysir were inherent in it. The differences between Takaful undertakings and those of conventional insurers are identified in the Islamic Financial Services Board s (IFSB) Guiding Principles: Takaful undertakings are generally structured as hybrids between mutual and proprietary entities; thus, they may face various conflicts of interest that ordinarily would not arise in conventional insurance. Takaful undertakings must adhere to the core principles of Ta`awun (cooperation) and Tabarru (donation) and the prohibition of Riba. An inherent component that adds value and differentiates between Takaful undertakings and those of conventional insurers is the sharing of risks among the Takaful participants, rather than the transfer of risks from the participants to the Takaful operator. This becomes part of the rationale for the practice of creating a separate account for underwriting activities on behalf of the Takaful participants, while the shareholders in Takaful operators will not bear any responsibility in the event of a deficit or loss suffered by the Takaful fund, other than having in place a Q ard (voluntary loan) facility to enable the Participants Risk Fund (PRF) to meet its obligations in the event of a deficiency. However, the capital of the Takaful operators is exposed in extreme cases where the PRF suffers a loss on such a scale that the Q ard once made cannot be recovered from contributions over any reasonable period (Redzuan et al., 2009). In summary our journey begins with the incompatibility between a conventional insurance contract and the exigencies of a Shariah compliant contract, such as Takaful. This conceptual incompatibility substantiates our hypotheses to the effect that economic and financial differences between Takaful and conventional insurance lead to distinguishable financial performances. Given the theoretical analysis in the previous section and the above conceptual distinction, what essential differences emerge with respect to expected performance and financial strength between Takaful and conventional insurers in Malaysia? This question occupies the present paper. 2. Research methodology 2.1. Data collection. The sample comprises twelve companies, six from conventional and Takaful un- 25
6 dertakings respectively. A total of nine Takaful operators could be identified in Malaysia as of 2010, but three were excluded as they had operated in the industry for a very short period, and thus there is insufficient data for them. Similarly, in Malaysia s conventional insurance industry there were 38 insurers in total, at the time of the research, excluding reinsurance companies. However, only those insurers offering both life and general insurance services similar to those of Takaful operators in size (i.e. total assets) have been included in our sample, in order to avoid sample bias. Due to the inaccessibility of the data and the relatively small number of Takaful operators in Malaysia before our following commencing date, a period of six years, from 2005 to 2010, is chosen. All of the data are extracted from the respective companies annual reports which are produced in accordance with the Malaysian accounting and auditing standards namely the original audited financial statements. These are in line with international standards and disciplines (World Bank, 2012). There are some gaps in the data for some of the selected companies, either due to late entry into the market or because they have not yet published the required data. Having selected twelve companies over a period of six years, there is a total of 72 year observations for the Takaful and for the conventional insurance companies. A total of thirteen predictor variables (financial ratios) are taken or calculated from the annual reports, in addition to the three macroeconomic variables identified previously Distinguishing between Takaful and conventional insurance Variables. Thirteen financial ratios are calculated initially, under three categories, profitability, solvency and efficiency. However, due to multicollinearity, seven financial ratios are finally selected, falling under two categories, profitability and solvency, in addition to our dichotomous/binary dependent variable to distinguish the performance of the two industries measured by financial ratios. Table 3 lists the original and finally selected variables. The ratios eventually used are explained in detail below Profitability ratios. There are several ratios that measure the profitability of insurance companies, but this paper uses the following four ratios in accordance with large majority of the literature: Return on assets (ROA) = Profit after tax / Total assets. Return on equity (ROE) = Profit after tax / Equity capital. Investment income ratio = Investment income / Premium earned. Net claims incurred / Net contribution. ROA and ROE are measures of managerial efficiency. ROA determines how a financial institution converts its assets into net earnings while ROE measures the net earnings per unit of investment committed by the shareholders. The higher the ratios, the better is the performance of the company s management and its financial position. The investment income ratio measures how well the company invests its premiums or contributions in order to generate more income. A higher ratio is an indication of management s ability to utilize its surplus funds efficiently. Net claims incurred to net contribution examines the level of actual claims being paid out by the insurers or Takaful operators out of the net premiums or contributions they receive from the policyholders. A lower ratio in this case would represent a lower risk exposure and more profitable business (see for example, Samad & Hassan, 1999) Solvency ratios. There are several ratios used in the insurance industry to measure the solvency status of a company, but this paper examines the following three ratios in accordance with large majority of the literature: Premium to surplus ratio (f) = Premium written / Surplus (family/life). Premium to surplus ratio (o) = Premium written / Surplus (overall industry). Total assets / Total net contributions (premiums written). Premium to surplus (f) measures the level of capital surplus required to write premiums. An insurance company must have an asset-heavy balance sheet to pay out claims. The industry statutory surplus is the amount by which assets exceed liabilities. For instance, a ratio of 95% means that insurers are writing 0.95 worth of premiums for every 1 of surplus. A ratio of 102% means that insurers are writing 1.02 for every 1 in premiums. A lower ratio in this case is indicative of a company having greater financial strength. This ratio is calculated twice. First, we measure life/family insurance/takaful in order to see how these two sectors in the two industries are performing. The second ratio incorporates general/life insurance, in order to measure the overall performance of the two industries. Total assets to total net contribution ratio examines the size of insurance company s capital relative to the premiums written. This takes into account the net premiums written as a measure of solvency rather than the total amount insured, because the level of premiums is linked to the likelihood of claims. It is a basic measure of the financial soundness of an insurer. A higher ratio indicates a more solvent business. 26
7 Table 3. List of predictor variables used in building the models Variables Return on assets (ROA)* Return on equity (ROE)* Claim expenses to net income* Investment income to average invested assets Investment income ratio* Total assets to total net contributions or premiums* Premium to surplus ratio (o)* Premium to surplus ratio (f)* Admin expenses to premiums written Net assets to net premiums written Operating expenses to average assets Operating income to total assets Operating expenses to operating income Note: * Variables finally selected in building the models. In order to compare conventional insurance with Takaful on the basis of the financial ratios, an independent t-test is conducted using SPSS 17. This test has been used in a similar way by several other researchers including Samad & Hasan (1999) and Samad (2004), to evaluate financial institutions performance. It allows us to test the equality of variances (Leven s test) and the t-values for equal variances. It serves to compare mean scores in continuous variables, for two different groups of participants. The economic and financial structural difference between Takaful and conventional insurance, set out in sections 1 and 2 (see for example, Soekarno and Azhari, 2009; Redzuan et al., 2009), provides a clear theoretical driver for our first hypothesis concerning the Malaysian market, namely as follows: H 1 : Financial ratios can distinguish between the performance of conventional insurance companies and Takaful operators in Malaysia Proposed statistical techniques. In order to distinguish between Takaful and conventional insurance, we use two different statistical modelling techniques, namely discriminant analysis and logistic regression using SPSS 17 and STATGRAPHICS Discriminant analysis (DA). This involves deriving a variate, which is the linear combination of two (or more) independent variables (see for example, Soekarno & Azhari, 2009). Our independent variables are the financial ratios of the Takaful and conventional insurance industries in Malaysia. Discrimination is achieved by calculating the variate s weight for each independent variable so as to maximize the differences between the groups. The variate for discriminant analysis, also known as the discriminant function, is derived from the following form: Z jk WX 1 1k WX 2 2 k... WX n nk, (1) where Z jk refers to the discriminant z-score of discriminant function j for object k; is the intercept; W i is the discriminant weight for independent variable i, and X ik is the independent variable i for object k. An advantage of DA is that the OLS estimation procedure can be implemented to estimate the coefficient of the linear discriminant function, whereas the maximum likelihood method is required for the estimation of logistic regression models. Another advantage of DA over logistic regression is that prior probabilities and misclassification costs can easily be incorporated into the DA approach. At the same time, LR found to be more precise in providing more accurate classification results Logistic regression (LR). It is referred to as LOGIT, this is a specialized form of regression that is formulated to predict and explain a binary (two-group) categorical variable rather than a metric-dependent measurement (see for example, Ong et al., 2011). The LOGIT equation takes the following form: p ln a 1X1 2X 2... nx n, [1 p] (2) where p shows the probability from zero to one, while a is the intercept term and i represents the slope coefficient in the estimated logit model Effect of macroeconomic variables. In order to advance the work of Rahman et al. (2008) we additionally attempt to measure the impact of macroeconomic variables on the growth of the Takaful and conventional insurance companies (see also Beck & Webb, 2003). For this purpose, we used annual data on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Treasury Bill Rate (TBR) for the period from 2005 to 2010 as independent variables obtained from the Department of National Statistics Malaysia, 2011 and BNM annual report, While these macroeconomic variables are the independent variables, the growth of the Takaful/conventional insurance industry is measured by two dependent variables namely total net contributions to premiums and net investment income. The data for the dependent variables are taken from the conventional insurance and Takaful companies annual reports. The multiple regression model is designed to measure the relationships between the macroeconomic variables (GDP, CPI, and TBR) as explanatory variables, and net premiums to contributions and net investment income as dependent variables as shown below. Having the dependent variables data in absolute figure while the independent variables data in percentage, therefore, log has been run on the dependent variables to avoid potential processing error 27
8 in the SPSS 17 and/or STATGRAPHICS 5. Furthermore, to satisfy the linearity assumption of the regression model the logarithms of the dependent variables have been used. Empirical models: Net premiums / Contributions a0 a 1GDP a2tbr (3) acpi e. 3 3 et. t Net investment income a a GDP a TBR acpi (4) Further to our discussion in sections 1 and 2, the theory which drives our H 2 (see for example Rahman et al., 2008; Baharul-Ulum and Yaakob, 2003; Chang, 1995) argues essentially that Takaful has a healthy impact on the socioeconomics of a country. For example in the case Malaysia, GDP is potentially a good predictor of the demand for Takaful. Similarly the other macroeconomic variables which we have been able to use, namely TBR and CPI, within the range of data availability have also been found to be potentially significant (see for example, Rahman et al., 2008; Chang, 1995). Consequently, we submit the following hypothesis: H 2 : There is a significant relationship between the macroeconomic variables, namely GDP, CPI and TBR, and the performance of the Takaful operators and conventional insurance companies, as measured by net contribution to premiums and net investment income. 3. Findings and discussion According to the descriptive statistics in Table 4, the mean ROA for the Takaful industry is negative (-0.001) while that for the conventional insurance industry is positive (0.01), and the difference is statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. This indicates that the conventional insurance industry has better financial performance and managerial efficiency than the Takaful industry. This is supported by the results for the ROE, which has a mean of 0.35 for the conventional insurance industry but a mean of 0.01 for the Takaful industry, with a statistically significant difference at the 99% confidence level. This furthermore suggests that the conventional insurance companies more efficiently deploy shareholders capital. The results can also be attributed to certain other factors such as those indicated by Islamil et al. (2011) who argue that organizational form impinges on efficiency in particular when comparing Takaful operators with conventional insurance companies in Malaysia. Our results for the claim ratio are consistent in that there is a rather high mean of 0.63 for the conventional insurance industry and a mean of 0.49 for the Takaful industry with a statistically significant difference at the 95% confidence level. The relatively high claim ratio is indicative of the fact that the conventional insurance industry experiences high liquidity constraints (Akhtar, 2010). Our results are consistent with the findings of Rahman & Daud (2010) who argue that Islamic insurers in Malaysia seem to be carrying out prudent underwriting, which minimizes information asymmetry and leads to sustainable claims. The high claim ratio in the conventional insurance industry can also be attributed to the losses suffered by the Malaysian general insurance sector in 2007/08. According to LIAM (2010) for every RM1 of motor insurance premiums collected in 2007, insurers spent RM1.14 on paying claims and on the costs of acquiring and managing the business, and this figure rose to RM1.21 in the first half of However, looking at the overall profitability performance, it can be argued that the conventional insurance industry outperforms the Takaful industry in Malaysia. This result is consistent with the findings of Ismail et al. (2011) who argue that as a result of higher technical and scale efficiencies conventional insurers perform better than Takaful operators. However, we find that the investment income ratio, which also measures profitability, has a higher mean (0.05) for the Takaful industry than for the conventional insurance industry (0.04) but here the difference is not statistically significant. The solvency of the two industries is measured using premium to surplus ratio (f), premium to surplus ratio (o) and assets to premium ratio. The descriptive statistics indicate that premium to surplus (o) is considerably different for the Takaful and conventional insurance industries. As shown in Table 4, the mean for Takaful insurance is compared to 4.00 for conventional insurance, and show statistical significant differences at the 90% confidence level. This high mean for Takaful could be due to the fact that Takaful insurers concentrate, as part of their businesses, on general insurance more than conventional insurers do. In fact, the results are inconsistent with the findings of Yusop et al. (2011) who argue that Takaful operators are more efficient than conventional insurance in terms of risk management in Malaysia. A contrary result appears for the asset to premium ratio which is 4.31 for the Takaful industry and 6.06 for the insurance industry. The difference is statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. This suggests that conventional insurance companies are financially sound and can more efficiently meet potential future claims than Takaful operators can. The higher mean is indicative of the fact that conventional insurance companies in Malaysia maintain a sounder capital base than Takaful operators. The results are consistent with the findings of Ernst and Young (2011) who argue that Takaful operators in Malaysia have higher underwriting leverage, as a result of less equity when compared to conventional insurers and limited solvency requirements. Only one ratio, namely, premium to surplus (f), is not statistically significantly different for the two industries. 28
9 Profitability ratios Table 4. Descriptive statistics of the financial ratios Variables N Mean Std. deviation Std. error Takaful Conventional insurance Takaful Conventional insurance Takaful Conventional insurance Takaful Conventional insurance t-test for equality of means Investment income ratio ROA ROE Claim ratio Solvency ratios Premium to surplus ratio (f) Premium to surplus ratio (o) Assets to premium ratio Distinguishing between Takaful and conventional insurance Discriminant analysis (DA). This model is used to assess whether the selected financial ratios are able to distinguish between the Takaful operators and the conventional insurance companies. Table 5 summarizes the stepwise discriminant analysis 1 results, showing that the overall model is statistically significant at the 99% confidence level. The results allow us to conclude that financial ratios can distinguish between the performance of conventional Variable Wilks Lambda Chi 2 Table 5. Stepwise discriminant analysis t-value p-value insurance companies and Takaful operators in Malaysia. Thus hypothesis H 1 which states that Financial ratios can distinguish between the performance of conventional insurance companies and Takaful operators in Malaysia can be accepted. The results are also consistent with the findings of Soekarno & Azhari (2009) who argue that DA discriminates significantly between the good performance of joint venture general insurance companies and those not performing well in the Indonesian insurance industry. Unstandardized canonical coefficients Exact F Statistic DF p-value Investment income ratio Assets to premium Premium to surplus (f) ROE Overall model (correlation) Group centroids (insurance) Takaful DA furthermore shows that there are four variables, namely investment income, assets to premium, premium to surplus (f) and ROE that significantly distinguish between Takaful operators and conventional insurance companies in Malaysia. Our model further reveals that Wilks Lambda statistical value of for the investment income ratio is the highest among the variables, in terms of differentiating between the performances of the two industries, as shown in Table 5. 1 In order to strengthen the results obtained from the stepwise DA, a summary of the discriminant function is provided in Table 5. This provides more detail regarding the contribution that the independent 1 We have also applied discriminant analysis using all seven financial ratios, and found that the overall model was statistically significant at the 99% confidence level. The overall model classification accuracy was 82%, with 91.30% and 74.10% for the conventional and Takaful operators, respectively. variables make to the dependent variable. The canonical correlation is 64.2%, which indicates that there is a 64.2% contribution towards the dependent variable from the four independent variables. This further strengthens the earlier stepwise test, showing that those four variables powerfully distinguish the performance of Takaful operators and conventional insurance companies in Malaysia and are a valid means of distinguishing between the performances of the two industries. Furthermore, based on this function we can say that variables with higher coefficients have a more strongly positive relationship to the performance levels of the conventional insurance companies and Takaful operators, while those with lower or negative coefficients have a negative relationship. In terms of canonical discriminant function coefficients, ROE has the highest positive value of while the investment income ratio has the most neg- 29
10 ative value of Thus, the following discriminant function can be established: Z-scores = ROE investment income premium to surplus (f) asset to premium. (5) Using the Z-score, we can determine whether an industry s performance level can be classified as good or not. The function at group centroids will be used to calculate a cut-off value between good and bad performance. Our analysis reveals that the function at group centroids is for conventional insurers and for Takaful operators. Taking the cut-off value to be the mid-point of these, we can say that a group with a Z-score above zero will be classified as performing well, while a group with a Z-score below zero will be classified as performing badly. In order to measure whether the Z-score results given above are accurate, a predicted group membership test is conducted. The primary purpose of this test is to measure the reliability of the above discriminant function. The results in Table 6 show that an overall average correct classification rate of 83.9% is achieved, with 81.48% and 68.21% correct classifications for Takaful and conventional insurance respectively. This further supports hypothesis H 1. Table 6. Classification results for discriminant analysis and logistic regression Actual group Discriminant analysis Takaful (1) Predicted group Conventional insurance (0) Total % Takaful (1) Conventional insurance (0) Total Logistic regression Takaful (1) Conventional insurance (0) Total Logistic regression (LR). A stepwise logistic regression 1 is conducted to identify the ratios that distinguish Takaful operators and insurance companies in Malaysia, and to provide a comparison to the DA results. To assess the model fitness, we conduct omnibus tests of the model coefficients. Our results in Table 7 show that the p-value for LR model is less than 0.01, meaning there is a statistically signif- 1 We also ran the logistic regression using all seven financial ratios; the overall model was statistically significant at the 99% confidence level. It is worth mentioning that similar classification results were found when applying this model. icant difference between the variables at the 99% confidence level. Based on our results in this subsection, we accept hypothesis H 1 which asserts that the selected financial ratios are able to distinguish between conventional insurance and Takaful operators in Malaysia. This also supports our results applying discriminant analysis. Table 7. Stepwise logistic regression model Variable Investment income ratio Assets to premium Premium to surplus (f) Estimates Change in -2 log likelihood DF P-value ROE Claim ratio Premium to surplus (o) Overall model log likelihood Cox & Snell R 2 Nagelkerke R Table 6 shows classification results produced by the LR model which further demonstrate the accuracy of our results. Our results show that 91.30% and 88.90% of the conventional insurers and Takaful operators respectively are correctly classified, while the overall average correct classification rate is 90.00%. This overall accuracy rate suggests that LR is a more reliable than the DA technique for evaluating the performance of Islamic and conventional insurers using financial ratios. The model further shows how far the independent variables enable us to distinguish between the performances of the two industries. Only the investment income ratio has a highly positive coefficient, although the effect of the premium to surplus ratio (o) is also positive. All other variables have a negative effect. The resulting equation for the LR model is as follows: Logit i = investment income assets to premium premium to surplus (f) ROE claim ratio premium to surplus (o) (6) 3.2. Effect of macroeconomic variables. In this section, three regression models are run. Firstly, net contributions are used as the dependent variable for both Takaful and conventional insurance operators separately. Secondly, net investment income is used for both Takaful and conventional insurance companies. Finally, we combine Takaful and conventional insurance operators into one sample, and then run each of the two models again on this combined sample. Taking macroeconomic variables as the explanatory variables, and net contributions as the dependent 30
11 variable, we find that the Takaful model is not statistically significant and that none of the explanatory variables namely Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Treasury Bill Rate (TBR) is significant. By contrast, the conventional insurance regression model is significant at the 90% confidence level. Also, the coefficients of GDP and TBR show a statistical significance at the 90% confidence level; GDP is positively correlated to net contributions while TBR is negatively correlated. Therefore, it can be concluded that none of the macroeconomic variables influence the growth of the Takaful industry as measured by net contributions, whilst GDP and TBR have positive and negative effects respectively on the net contributions of conventional insurance operators. In fact, this result is consistent with the study of Redzuan & Yaakob (2004) who argue that conventional life insurance in Malaysia is a luxury good and, therefore, is positively related to economic growth. However, our findings for Takaful operators are inconsistent with the study of Rahman et al. (2008) who argue that a statistical significance exists between the demand for family Takaful as measured by net contributions, and the economic variables of GDP, CPI and TBR. The results are also inconsistent with the findings of Redzuan et al. (2009) who argue that income per capita (measured by GDP) is a robust predictor of family Takaful demand (measured by net contributions), while the long-term interest rate and composite stock index have significant relationships with family Takaful consumption. However, we assume that, even if there is no statistical significance between the macro-economic variables and the Takaful performance indicators, the demand for Takaful products is still likely to be growing because of the high public awareness of Takaful products and their benefits in Malaysia (see for example Rahman et al., 2008). Table 8. Net contributions regression model Takaful Conventional insurance Variable B T P-value B T P-value Constant GDP CPI TBR Overall model R 2 F - R 2 F Note: GDP is the Gross Domestic Product; CPI is the Consumer Price Index and TBR is the Treasury Bill Rate. The insignificance of the Takaful industry model (and by contrast the significance of the conventional insurers model) can be explained as follows: the Takaful industry has lower technical and scale efficiencies than the conventional insurance industry in Malaysia. Thus, since the Takaful industry is operating at a relatively smaller scale than the conventional industry in Malaysia, this could explain the insignificance of the model, as is evident from the findings of Ismail et al. (2011) and Saad et al. (2006). Thus, for Takaful, hypothesis H 2 which states that there is a significant relationship between the macro-economic variables, namely GDP, CPI and TBR, and the performance of the Takaful operators and conventional insurance companies, as measured by net contribution to premiums and net investment income is rejected. By contrast, hypothesis H 2 can only be accepted for the conventional insurance industry. Table 9. Net investment income regression models Takaful Conventional insurance Variable B T P-value B T P-value Constant GDP CPI TBR Overall model R 2 F - R 2 F Note: GDP is the Gross Domestic Product; CPI is the Consumer Price Index and TBR is the Treasury Bill Rate. As shown in Table 9, unlike the net contribution models, the net investment income regression models for both the Takaful and the conventional insurance industry are statistically significant at the 95% and 99% confidence levels respectively. Two of the macroeconomic indicators, namely GDP and TBR do influence the Takaful industry at the 90% and 95% confidence levels respectively. On the other hand, GDP considerably influences the net investment income of the conventional insurance industry at the 99% confidence level. Thus the positive relation between GDP and the net investment income variable shows that an upward trend in the general economy will yield better returns on the investments of both Takaful and conventional insurers. Our results are arguably consistent with the findings of Ernst and Young (2011) who find that conventional insurers have produced significantly better results than their Takaful counterparts in Malaysia, based on their investment returns. However, besides economic growth there seem to be other explanatory variables influencing investment income, as is evident from the relatively low R 2 value (0.39), which shows that only 39% of the change in the value of the dependent variable is explained by the independent variables. The impact of other explanatory variables on investment income 31
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